The Wrangler Horse and Rodeo News

April 5-19, 2020 • The WRANGLER, Horse and Rodeo News 53 Wyoming Cowboy Hall of Fame Inductees Wyoming Cowboy Hall of Fame Inductees Gerald McInerney 1939 - Sundance Gerald McInerney was born in Deadwood, S.D. He grew up on his parents' ranch there, and s ll owns the home place. He a ended school at the Buckhorn school in Dupree, S.D and St. Onge, S.D. He graduated from Spearfish High School. He married Jacquie Olsen in 1963 and they have five children. He has spent his adult life in Wyoming. Gerald worked with horses and ca le most of his life. He trained horses for his own use and others. He trained his first dogging horse with the family milk cow when he was 13 years old. He went on to win many saddles in steer wrestling and breakaway roping. which he s ll does. He dogged his last steer when he was 52. Gerald produced rodeos for NRCA High School and 4-H. He helped many youth with their rodeo dreams. Gerald served on the Fair Board for the Crook County Fair. Gerald is a great mentor and neighbor to all who know him. GERALD MCINERNEY Eugene Paul "Gene" Pearson, Sr. 1946 - Pinedale Eugene Paul "Gene" Pearson, Sr. was born August 17, 1946, in Kemmerer, to Tony and Kathryn Pearson. For the first six years of his life, he lived on the Phillip's place, also known as the Gransden place in Daniel. His family then moved to his Grandfather Pape's Spade Ranch un l he was a freshman in high school. During his high school years, he would hay for Benny Pearson in the summer and ride colts for other ranchers. Throughout the next couple of years, Gene fed cows for George Jorgensen, EUGENE PAUL "GENE" PEARSON, SR. hayed with horses on the Noble Ranch, and worked for Hank and Melita Snow on the Faye e Ranch. He also guided for Doc McCloud and the Granite Creek Ranch during the falls of 1966 and 1967. He would occasionally help Irv Lozier at the Box R Ranch when he needed an extra guide. In November of 1967, he went to work for Miller Land and Livestock. Gene worked for Miller's un l 1989, and then he began running his own cows, which he con nues to do. Dale Robbins 1938 - Laramie Dale Robbins has been a cowboy in northern Albany County his en re life. He was born in 1938 to Jim and Yvonne Robbins. He was raised on the ranch with his younger brother, Dwight. He a ended school at the ranch, in Rock River, and in Laramie. He was ac ve in FFA and was awarded the American Farmer Degree at the 1960 Na onal FFA Conven on in Kansas City. He became his Dad's partner on the ranch the day he graduated from Laramie High School in 1957. Dale and Saundra Short were married in September of 1959. They went directly to the family ranch where they reared their three children. They raised Hereford ca le for 45 years and Dale broke and trained horses for use on the ranch. Dale never did rodeo but he liked to say he rode High Lonesome longer than anyone. Dale rode High Lonesome on the ranch for several months un l he could see the horse was not going to be good for ranch work. He sold the horse to Summit Rodeo and High Lonesome DALE ROBBINS went to the Na onal Finals Rodeo for several years. Tom Schu e 1942 - Kaycee Tom Schu e was born in Nebraska. A er gradua ng from high school in 1959, he came to Wyoming where he took a job with a telephone company. He always found a way to work with livestock. When the crew would stay in Sheridan, Tom would break horses for area ranchers for extra money. Tom met and married Karen Good in Sheridan, then moved to South Dakota to work on a ranch before moving to Midwest to work for Buck Allemand at the Staple 3 Sheep Company. In 1966 Tom's cowboying territory expanded greatly. Buck Allemand struck a deal with Herman Werner and Tom began working with Buck and other cowboys on Werner's ranches: the Spearhead Ranch (north of Douglas), the 55 (near Glenrock), the TTT (south of Kaycee), and the Bolten Ranch (near Rawlins), all while con nuing to work at the Staple 3. Tom became sort of the "swing man" and was constantly on the move between ranches. He took other jobs, returned to the Allemand Ranch, and later had a place of his own and an ou i ng business in Clark, Wyoming. TOM SCHUTTE Raymond "Ray" Smith 1932 - Manville Raymond "Ray" Smith worked on and ran 17 ranches located all across Converse and Weston coun es. Raymond spent most of his summers as a youngster at his grandfather, Anthony "Andy" Wilkinson Sedgwick's, ranch on the Cheyenne River. He credits his grandfather for his basic ranching knowledge. He delivered supplies to sheep camps, broke horses, and trailed ca le from an uncle's ranch on the Cheyenne River to a ranch near Newcastle. He worked at the Lusk sale barn and had job for a variety of ranches including the O Ten Bar at Jay Em,owned by Frank Coffee. He worked on other ranches in Wyoming and on the Yellowstone River near Glendive, Montana. He started rodeoing, riding bulls, bareback broncs and taking part in wild horse races. A er a hitch in the U.S. Army, he took a job at Fort Hat Creek Ranch and then took a job with Harry Manning. There he could run his own stock, and therea er he only worked on ranches that allowed him to have his own ca le. His wife May, helped on many of the ranches as the "hired hand," who did not receive a paycheck, but did her share of calving and working ca le. RAYMOND "RAY" SMITH

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